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a solidarity of instinct

Posted by luno in marriage, Nietzsche (Friday July 22, 2005 at 1:05 pm)
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Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, 1889, Kaufmann translation, “Skirmishes of an Untimely Man”, sec. 39:
….The rationality of marriage—that lay in the husband’s sole juridical responsibility, which gave marriage a center of gravity, while today it limps on both legs. The rationality of marriage—that lay in its indissolubility in principle, which lent it an accent that […]